In 1995 the Supercomputer Facility formally became
a joint sponsor of the weekly 'Advanced Computation' seminars
series traditionally organized by the Centre for Mathematical
Applications, SMS. Facility staff presented two such seminars:

Dr John Carpenter, Cray Research spoke on Computational
Chemistry on the Cray T3D on 16 May.

In conjunction with CRES and the Global Change Confederation,
Mr John Michalakes, Argonne National Laboratory spoke on Implementing
Atmospheric Models on Scalable Parallel Computers on 11 September.

A half-day workshop attended by around 40 staff and
students on Modern Fortran and Parallel Programming was given
on 25 March by Professor John Reid, Rutherford Appleton Laboratories,
Dr Chris Johnson and Mr David Sitsky, FEIT and Dr David Singleton,
ANUSF.

In conjunction with the Centre for Mathematical Applications,
SMS, and CSL, RSISE and ANZIAM a one-day workshop on The New Computational
Mathematics was held on 12 December. This attracted a around
60 computational researchers from the ANU as well as a number
of interstate speakers and attendees as well as one from New Zealand.

The Facility also supported the attendance of Dr
Martin Head-Gordon, University of California Berkeley, Dr Benny
Johnson, Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center and Dr Peter Gill, Massey
University at the Royal Australian Chemical Institute conferences
on Physical Chemistry and the Sixth Australian Conference on Chemical
Reaction Dynamics held at ANU 12-16 February.

Training Courses

With the maturity of the supercomputer systems, the
demand for courses on use of the VP and CM systems has lessened.
Dr David Singleton and Ms Judy Jenkinson gave a FORTRAN 90 course
on on 15-16 June. This course was attended by approximately 15
researchers and students.

Undergraduate Educational Activities

The Supercomputer Facility and the Department of
Computer Science received partial funding under the 1994 Quality
Assurance Program to establish an educational program in computational
science and engineering. With the support of other funds, Dr
Henry Gardner was appointed as Lecture Level C in December. Initially
senior undergraduate courses will be established, followed by
postgraduate and industrial courses. The aim is to take a 'hands-on'
approach based on solving real-world problems using case studies.
A computational laboratory for this program was established late
in the year in the CSIT building with links to high performance
computing systems on campus. The laboratory will also be available
for other uses which require workstations with substantial graphics
power.

Also with funding from the Quality Assurance Program,
Ms Dena Hyman was appointed in conjunction with the Centre for
Resource and Environmental Sciences as a programmer/researcher
to assist (amongst other duties) with establishing materials for
the teaching of courses by the Department of Geography and CRES
in climate modelling.

Postgraduate Educational Activities

Facility staff assisted with a program of lectures
organized by Dr M Hegland, CSL, RSISE for postgraduate students
on Parallel Numerical Algorithms. The course consisted of 13
lectures plus tutorials and was attended by up to 50 students.

Fujitsu ANU-Japan Exchange Scheme

As part of the research and development agreement
between the ANU and Fujitsu entered into at the time of the acquisition
of the VP100 a number of visits of ANU researchers to Japan and
vice versa have been funded over the years. In 1995, this fund
assisted the attendance by Dr S Nose, Keio University at the Royal
Australian Chemical Institute conferences on Physical Chemistry
and the Sixth Australian Conference on Chemical Reaction Dynamics
held at ANU 12-16 February.

Fujitsu International Supercomputer Users Meeting

The annual Fujitsu International Supercomputer Users
Meeting, FISUM4 was held at the ANU in September and attracted
a number of international and Australian speakers and participants.
Further details are given elsewhere in this report.

Other

Dr Nobes was the principal organizer for a major
international scientific meeting Molecular Quantum Mechanics:
Methods and Applications held in Cambridge, UK in September 1995.